Charles Faison, of Berkeley, was a hardworking father raising three kids on his own when one of them, for reasons unknown, murdered him with a gunshot to the head last summer, a prosecutor said Monday.

A judge last week found 16-year-old Davon Faison guilty of first-degree murder with an enhancement for using a gun in the death of his 40-year-old father, said Georgia Santos, a deputy district attorney in the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center.

Davon Faison, who turned himself in four months after the shooting, on June 19, 2008, will be sentenced Oct. 8.

When he is sentenced, a judge could have him locked up in the California Division of Juvenile Justice until he is 25. Or he could face a variety of other sentences, including being placed on probation and sent home, being sent to a group home or placed in minimum security reform centers in Nevada, Southern California or Alameda County.

“I think Charles Faison was a very good father and he was doing the best he could raising three children as a single parent in Berkeley,” Santos said.

“No one really knows what went down that morning and what was in Davon’s mind to make him do this.”

Santos said the elder Faison had gotten into trouble in the past and wanted to steer his three children, all from different mothers, away from that life. He worked nights as a talent agent and security guard at several night clubs in San Francisco, she said.

If his intentions were good, his sons were not, Santos said.

Faison’s oldest son, Deontae Faison, 20, was arrested with a loaded handgun registered to his mother a month after the killing of his father, a gun Santos said she believes was used as the murder weapon. He pleaded guilty Sept. 3 to possession of a loaded firearm in a public place. He is back in jail on drug possession charges, Santos said.

Santos said Charles Faison found it increasingly hard to monitor his children while he was working at night.

“He was home during the day, but there were a lot of problems at night because he wasn’t there to watch them,” Santos said.

“He wanted to make sure these kids didn’t have the trouble he did, but maybe these kids didn’t want to have any of that. There was evidence of the father wanting Davon to do one thing, and Davon wanting to do another.”

Santos said Berkeley police did an “excellent job” investigating the murder when Davon Faison turned himself in.

They found “abundant” gunshot residue on the T-shirt he was wearing the day his father died, Santos said.

“There was a very strong circumstantial case against him,” Santos said.

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